Dr. Patrick Baraza, Lecturer of Religious Studies, is an ordained priest from the diocese of Kitale, Kenya. He has been teaching African Catholicism and Islamic Civilization in the Religious Studies Department at Gonzaga University since 2005. Baraza studied theology at Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary cum Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana, Rome, Italy (1978-1982). He holds a Bachelor of Divinity (B.Div.) degree (1982), Licentiate (S.T.L.) from Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (1995) and a doctorate in Theology from the Graduate Theological Union cum University of California Berkeley (2002). His area of specialization: Islamic Studies and African Traditional Religions. Prior to coming to Gonzaga, Baraza taught African studies at Saint Augustine National Seminary at Mabanga, Kenya. He has also taught Comparative Religions at Eastern Washington University, Cheney and Islamic Civilizations at Spokane Community College. Baraza has served as a chaplain at Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, for six years. He is the author of Rival Claims for the Soul of Africa as well as an upcoming book entitled, Drumming up Dialogue: The Bukusu Model for the World.

Adam Bartholomew

Adjunct Instructor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 57Spokane, WA 99258-0057

Phone: 509-313-6770
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRO 004

Office HoursFALL 2015

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bartholomewa@gonzaga.edu

Adam
Gilbert Leinbach Bartholomew was ordained as a United Church of Christ pastor
in 1968 and as an Episcopal priest in 2002. From 1971 to 2012 he served
churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. He received his Ph.D. in
New Testament from Union Seminary in New York in 1974. In 1970 he participated
in the Seminar for Doctoral Students conducted by Dr. Rudolf Schnackenburg in
Wuerzburg, Germany. He has taught as Adjunct Professor of New Testament at
Lancaster Seminary in Pennsylvania for 25 years, and also as an adjunct at New
York Theological Seminary, United Seminary in Dayton, OH, Penn State
University, University of Cincinnati, Loyola Institute for Ministry Extension,
General Seminary, and the Mercer School of Theology in Long Island. He is
Co-founder of the Network of Biblical Storytellers, and Biblical storytelling
is his passion and central to both his pastoral work and his teaching. He
is author of Pass It On: Hearing and Telling Stories from John,
and co-author with Ronald J. Allen of Preaching Verse By Verse, as well
as numerous articles and pamphlets. He is currently writing a commentary on the
Fourth Gospel as Oral Performance. He is married to The Rev. Linda Bartholomew,
Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Spokane Valley, WA. They
have a daughter, Jessica, and granddaughter, Emma, who live in Cincinnati, OH.

Dr. Ardy Bass

Lecturer of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6785
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 114

Office Hours

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bassa@gonzaga.edu

Ardy Bass (Ph.D., Marquette) is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Gonzaga University where she has taught since 2000. Before coming to Gonzaga she taught at Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI), Willamette University (Salem, OR) and Eastern Washington University (Cheney, WA). She teaches Introduction to the New Testament and The Synoptic Gospels. Her dissertation, Composition and Redaction in the Coptic Gospel of Mary, is an analysis of the structure of the text and the compositional strategies used by the redactor. Other areas of interest include archaeology and Classics. She was awarded an Archaeology Research Grant from the Catholic Biblical Association and participated in two dig seasons (1995-96) at Ashkelon, Israel sponsored by Harvard University's Semitic Museum. She occasionally teaches courses in Classical Civilizations, such as Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and Women in the Classical World. In 2008, she participated in a NEH Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome on Identity and Self-Representation in the Subcultures of Ancient Rome. Her current research focuses on images of men and women dressed as Isis on funerary reliefs in the Roman period. In 2010, Dr. Bass participated in Gonzaga Greek Week: Conflict and Controversy in Ancient Greek Comedy, sponsored by Classical Civilizations. She presented a paper on The Desperate Housewives of Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Women and Social Reality in Athens and Sparta. Since 2002, she has co-chaired the Women and Religion section (http://pnwr.wordpress.com/) of the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature and American Schools of Oriental Research. She currently serves on the Executive committee as Financial Secretary for this regional organization. Dr. Bass completed a BA in Theology Seattle University and an MA in Religious Studies from Gonzaga University.

Matthew Bell

Adjunct Instructor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-3537
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationHerak 309A

Office HoursFALL 2015

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bellm@gonzaga.edu

Rev. Matthew Bell is an adjunct instructor in Religious
Studies and Computer Science at Gonzaga University. He graduated with his
M.Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 2006, from the University of
Pittsburgh with his M.S. in Computer Science in 2003, and is currently awaiting
imminent completion of his Ph.D. through the University of Durham in the United
Kingdom. His doctoral dissertation is on reading Christian scriptures according
to the Rule of Faith in the early centuries C.E. and the possibilities for
bringing that world into conversation with the "postmodern" setting.
Other hats he joyfully wears are associate pastor at two Presbyterian churches
in the greater Spokane area, husband and father, and homebrewer.

Dr. Emily Suzanne Clark specializes in
American religious history with a focus on the intersections of religion and
race in American history and culture. She received a B.A. from Austin College, her M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of
Missouri, and a Ph.D. in Religion from Florida State University. In addition to
American religious history and religion and race, her research and teaching
interests include African American religions, American Catholic history,
religious material culture, and religion and politics. She has published on the
Moorish Science Temple, African American Catholicism, and religion in the U.S.
South. Her current book project, A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-century New Orleans, explores the politics of talking to the dead. She is the initiative leader of the Gonzaga Digital Humanities working group and is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Southern Religion. When not teaching, reading, or researching, she can be found hiking and running about the area and playing soccer in the local Spokane adult league.

John K. Downey (Ph.D., Marquette) is
Professor of Religious
Studies (Foundational
Theology & Political
Theology) at Gonzaga University
where he has taught for 20
years. Before coming to
Gonzaga he taught in the
Program in Religious Studies
at the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana. He also
served as Director of
Education and Staff Theologian
at the University of Illinois
Newman Foundation. Other faculty appointments include Spokane Falls Community College, Mount Mary College,
Cardinal Stritch College, and
Marquette.
Special interests: foundational theology and method,
political theology, higher
education and pedagogy, linguistic philosophy, human
rights, interdisciplinary dialogue, liberation theologies, Francis of Assisi, Wittgenstein,
Lonergan, Tracy, Metz.

Dr. Shannon Dunn

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-3625
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 103

Office HoursFALL 2015

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dunns@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Shannon Dunn is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga. Shannon received her M.A. degree from Claremont School of Theology prior to completing her doctoral degree at Florida State University in 2012. Her areas of focus include comparative Islamic and Christian ethics, gender and religion, as well as uses of violence in religious discourses. Her dissertation examined contemporary Islamic arguments about domestic violence and justice in relation to Western feminist claims about gender justice, and she continues to research in this area. Additionally, she is working on a project that addresses the revival of conceptions of virtue in Christian theological ethics. Shannon is an active member in the Society of Christian Ethics and the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics.

Kathy Finley

Adjunct Instructor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 57Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6770
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 004

Office HoursFALL 2015

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Mrs. Kathy Finley has an MA in Religious Education,
as well as an MA in Counseling Psychology from Gonzaga. She did her
undergraduate work at GU, receiving a BA Honors in Theology.

Her areas of interest are Christian marriage and
family life, and in addition to teaching about marriage, she has worked
helping prepare couples for marriage for many years. She also has a
strong interest in Christian spirituality, which
she has taught at Gonzaga and elsewhere. She and her husband Mitch
have written extensively on practical spirituality topics and are
nationally known authors and speakers.

Elizabeth W. Goldstein (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2010) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. She specializes in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Jewish Studies. She received her rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2001. She is a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Association for Jewish Studies. Her dissertation is titled, "Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible: Ideological Intersections in the Books of Leviticus, Ezekiel and Ezra" and she is currently working on its publication. She has published articles on the Book of Leviticus and gender in Embroidered Garments (Sheffield Phoenix, 2009, Ed. Deborah Rooke) and Jewish Blood: Metaphor and Reality in Jewish Torah: A Women's Commentary (Union of Reform Judaism Press, 2008, Eds. Tamara Eskenazi and Andrea Weiss). She has also served as the Book Review Editor of the CCAR Journal. Rabbi Goldstein has taught in many segments of the Jewish Community and in interfaith contexts. She has taught at the University of CA San Diego and at San Diego State University. Dr. Goldstein has been involved in interfaith work, dialogue and scriptural study. She initiated a pilot program between an Episcopal parish and a Jewish congregation in Poway, CA entitled, "Opening the Book: Jews and Christians Studying Scripture Together."

Fr. Patrick Hartin

Professor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6789
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 105

Office Hours

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hartin@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Patrick Hartin, Professor of Religious Studies, is an ordained priest, previously of the Diocese of Johannesburg, South Africa and now of the Diocese of Spokane, Washington. He has been teaching New Testament Studies in the Religious Studies Department at Gonzaga University since 1995. Chair of the Classical Civilizations Department from 2002 through 2007, Patrick continues to teach classes for the Classical Civilization Department. Patrick studied theology at the Gregorian University in Rome (1967-1971). Born in South Africa, Patrick holds two doctorates in Theology from the University of South Africa (Pretoria) in Ethics (1981) and in New Testament (1988). His area of specialization is in the Letter of James as well as the traditions behind the Gospels, particularly the Sayings Gospel Q. He is currently co-convener of the Social-Sciences and New Testament Interpretation Task Force of the Catholic Biblical Association. Prior to coming to Gonzaga, Patrick taught New Testament at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and the University of South Africa, Pretoria. He was also chaplain to the Catholic Community at the Claremont Colleges, California. Author of twelve books, among which are his commentary James in the Sacra Pagina Series 14 (2003) and his most recent work Apollos: Paul's Partner or Rival? (2009) both published by Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.

Dr. Robert Hauck

Associate Professor of Religious Studies/Department Chair

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6777
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 012

Office HoursFALL 2015

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hauck@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Robert Hauck, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, has a B.A. in history from Seattle Pacific University, an M.A. in Church History from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Ph.D. in history of Christianity from Duke University. He is the author of a book and several articles and papers on early Christianity, and is working on a project on the ways Christian apologists of the second and third centuries formulated notions of salvation in relation to Hellenistic philosophy and culture. He has taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia, the University of Oregon, and taught for ten years at Converse College in South Carolina, where he was R.L. Maclellan Professor of Religion and chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy. Prior to coming to Gonzaga, he was Dean of Liberal Arts at Spokane Community College. A native of the Seattle area, he is married and has two children.

Dr. Karin Heller

Adjunct Instructor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-3609
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 004

Office HoursFALL 2015

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heller@gonzaga.edu

Karin Heller,
a native Austrian, French and U.S. citizen, is a Catholic theologian. She
obtained her first doctoral degree in theology with specialisation in studies
on marriage and the family at the Lateran University, Rome. She also holds a
doctoral degree in History of Religions and Religious Anthropology from the
Sorbonne University, Paris. In 2000, she obtained a Habilitation in
dogmatic theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany. In
2003 she joined Whitworth University. Today Professor of Theology, she was
selectedMost
Influential Female Professor by the 2007 Senior class and received the 2009
Whitworth Award for Outstanding Integration of Vocation in the Classroom.

Her publications relate to dogmatic and biblical theology, Christian spirituality and ecumenism with particular emphasis on Women and Genders. Her last publications include articles such as Oliver Messiaen the Theologian, edited by Andrew Shenton, Boston University (Ashgate, 2010) and "La Ordenacion de las Mujeres a Prueba de una Thologia del Agape en Las Iglesias Protestantes de Los Estados Unidos," in Selecciones de Teologia, Faculty of Theology of the University of Cataluna, selected as best internation article in theology (2011). Her presentations include "Sex, Love and the Absence of Death. A Theological Reading of Genesis 1-3," Conference on "Genesis and Christian Theology," organized by the University of St. Andrews, UK, (2009) Catholique des Baptise-e-s francophones, Paris 2012.

Dr. April Hughes

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 57Spokane, WA 99258-0057

Phone: 509-313-6749
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRO 003

Office HoursFALL 2015

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hughesa@gonzaga.edu

April D. Hughes is an Assistant
Professor of Religious Studies.She
received a Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University in 2014.She has a Master’s in Asian Studies from the University
of California, Berkeley and a Master’s in East Asian Studies from the University
of California, Los Angeles.Her research
focuses on situating medieval Chinese religion within the broader context of
society, particularly with the inclusion of visual images.She is especially interested in medieval
Chinese Buddhist manuscripts discovered in Dunhuang (northwest China).Her current project centers on apocalyptic
eschatology related to Maitreya Buddha and Prince Moonlight from roughly the
fourth to the eighth centuries.Her
teaching interests include Buddhism, Daoism, East Asian religions, the Silk
Road, apocalypticism, and Approaches
to the Study of Religion.

Fr. Steve Kuder. S.J.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6778
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 015

Office HoursFALL 2015

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kuder@gonzaga.edu

Steve Kuder, S.J., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Rector of Gonzaga University's Jesuit Community. His area of specialization is religion and literature with an emphasis in biblical literature. He also teaches homiletics, Christian leadership, and - in the MA program in Organizational Leadership - leadership and imagination. Fr. Kuder took his Bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University where he majored in classics, English, and philosophy. He received a Master's degree in English Literature from Boston College. Fr. Kuder received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. His dissertation was titled "The Literature of Conversion: Religious Background and Literary Achievement in Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, and James Joyce."

Dr. Ron Large

Professor of Religious StudiesAssociate Academic Vice President

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 099Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6767
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationCollege Hall 232

Office Hours

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large@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Ron Large is Associate Academic Vice President and Professor of Religious Studies. His area of specialization is Christian Ethics with an emphasis on Christian Social Ethics and peace studies. Dr. Large took his Bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia where he majored in Religious Studies. He received his Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. His M.Div. thesis examined violence and nonviolence as methods of social change. Dr. Large received his doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. His dissertation was on the connection between virtue and social change in the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi. He teaches classes in Nonviolence, Christian Morality, Death and Dying, Sexual Morality, Religion and Film, and the Vietnam War. For the academic year 2000-2001, he was named Teacher of the Year at Gonzaga University. In the summer of 2006, Dr. Large was invited to attend a week long seminar on Global Peace and Security at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC. Dr. Large received a Fulbright Scholar Award in the Fall of 2009. He taught in the International Peace Studies Program at the Irish School of Ecumenics in Trinity College Dublin. He received Gonzaga University's Exemplary Faculty Award for 2009-2010.

Dr. Patrick McCormick

Professor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6715
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 016

Office HoursFALL 2015

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mccormick@calvin.gonzaga.edu

Dr. Patrick McCormick, Professor of Religious Studies, earned his Masters of Divinity and Theology from Mary Immaculate Seminary in Northampton, PA. He completed his Licentiate and doctorate in Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. Professor McCormick teaches courses in Christian Ethics, Medical Ethics, and Catholic Social Teachings and speaks, writes and directs retreats on issues of social justice. He is the author of Sin as Addiction, and A Banqueter's Guide to the All Night Soup Kitchen of the Kingdom of God, and the co-author of Character, Choices & Community: The Three Faces of Christian Ethics and Facing Ethical Issues: Dimensions of Character, choice and Community. He has also published over thirty chapters and essays on Christian Ethics and Catholic Social Teachings and has written a monthly column on Christianity and Culture for U.S. Catholic since 1994.

Dr. Kevin B. McCruden

Professor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-5980
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 109

Dr. Kevin B. McCruden (Ph.D. in Theology from Loyola University Chicago (2002); S.T.M (1995), M.Div. (1994) Yale Divinity School; B.A. New York University (1990) is Professor of Religious Studies and specializes in the area of New Testament interpretation and criticism. His research interests focus on the epistolary literature of the New Testament, in particular, the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Letters of Paul. Selected publications include: Solidarity Perfected: Beneficent Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews. BZNW 159 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008); Reading the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Resource for Students. Co-edited with Eric F. Mason (Atlanta/Leiden: Society of Biblical Literature/Brill, 2011); "The Eloquent Blood of Jesus: The Neglected Theme of the Fidelity of Jesus in Hebrews 12:24," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 75 (3) 2013; A Body You Have Prepared for Me: The Spirituality of the Letter to the Hebrews (Collegeville, Mn: Liturgical Press, 2013). Kevin is an active member of both the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association, and is currently co-convener of the Epistle to the Hebrews Continuing Seminar of the Catholic Biblical Association.

Dr. Terri McKenzie

Lecturer of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99205

Phone: 509-313-6798
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 011

Office Hours

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mckenziet@gonzaga.edu

Terri Monaghan McKenzie earned her MA in Religious Studies and her Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership at Gonzaga University. She has almost 25 years' experience in youth ministry, Religious Education and pastoral ministry. She served for seven years as director of Gonzaga's Religious Studies Sabbatical programs (Focus and CREDO) as well as administrated GU's Pastoral Ministries Program for the Diocese of Spokane; Baker, OR; Anchorage, AK; and Juneau, AK. She is the author of several sacramental preparation programs. She currently serves as the Vice President of Student & Instructional Services at Spokane Community College

Dr. Joy Milos

Professor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6714
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 116

Office HoursFALL 2015

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milos@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Joy Milos, CSJ is presently Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga. She is a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet from the Albany, NY Province. She received her Ph.D from the Catholic University of American in Christian Spirituality. She has taught a wide range of courses in spirituality Christology, women and Christian spirituality, spiritual direction and comparative Christianity. Joy has published a number of articles, chapters and book reviews in such journals as The Way, Commonweal,Living Light, Sewanee Theological Review and Spirituality. Her most recent articles have been about the spirituality of Dorothy L. Sayers and Dr. A. Maude Royden. Joy has also directed retreats in various locations around the country, Canada, England and Ireland. In addition to her academic background, she is committed to an integration of spirituality and social justice, especially around issues related to adequate housing and women's concerns. She has taken numerous groups of Gonzaga students on Habitat for Humanity Global Village experiences to rural central Mexico.

Dr. Joseph Mudd

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies/Graduate Program Co-Director

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.
AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6799
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 013

Office HoursFALL 2015

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mudd@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Joseph Mudd joined Gonzaga's faculty in 2010 as Assistant Professor in Religious Studies. He also serves as co-director of the graduate program. Joe holds a Ph.D. from Boston College and a Masters of Divinity from Harvard University. A native of Montana, Joe received a B.A. in Religious Studies from The University of Montana where he also worked in campus ministry. His primary area of expertise is sacramental/liturgical theology. His other areas of interest include the philosophy and theology of Bernard Lonegran, S.J., Thomas Aquinas, political and liberation theologies, the problem of evil, and Christian spirituality. Joe is the author of Eucharist as Meaning: Critical Metaphysics and Contemporary Sacramental Theology (Liturgical Press, 2014). Joe's courses include Liturgy, Contemporary Church, and God and Evil. Before arriving at Gonzaga Joe taught at Boston College, The College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) and Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, CT).

Vanessa Mudd

Adjunct Instructor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: contact via email
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 011

Office HoursFALL 2015

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muddv@gonzaga.edu

Vanessa Sibley Mudd joined Gonzaga's faculty in 2012. Vanessa holds a Masters in Religious Studies from Harvard University and a B.A. from Colby College in Maine where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. Vanessa has published two books focused on age appropriate methods of teaching religious studies curriculum. Before moving to the west coast, Vanessa taught at Boston College High School (Boston, MA) and the Belmont Hill School (Belmont, MA)..

Ph.D. Emory University M.Div. Fuller Theological Seminary M.A. University of Notre Dame B.A. University of California at Santa Barbara

rindge@gonzaga.edu

Matthew S. Rindge joined the Religious Studies faculty in 2008. He has also taught at Emory, Columbia Theological Seminary, and in six Asian, Latin American, and European countries. At GU he teaches "Bible and Film," "Bible and Ethics," and "Life and Teachings of Jesus." He is the author of Jesus' Parable of the Rich Fool: Luke 12:13-34 among Ancient Conversations on Death and Possessions (SBL, 2011), and his next book, Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream (Baylor University Press), is set to appear in 2015. His articles on diverse topics (Luke's Parables; Lament and Divine Abandonment in Mark; Jewish Identity under Foreign Empires; Mark's Gospel and Social Outcasts; Teaching the Bible and Film; Death and Money in Ecclesiastes) have appeared in Journal of Biblical Literature, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Teaching Theology and Religion, Journal of Lutheran Ethics, and Interpretation. He has many essays in edited collections (Bible and Cinema), and has written on Religion and Culture for Sojourners, Religion News Service, and The Washington Post. In the Society of Biblical Literature, he chairs the Bible and Film section and is on the steering committee for the Bible and Popular Culture section. Dr. Rindge has received SBL's Paul J. Achtemeier Award in New Testament Scholarship (2011), and a Gonzaga University Exemplary Faculty Award (2012).

Dr. Linda Schearing

Professor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6797
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 014

Office HoursFALL 2015

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schearing@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Linda S. Schearing
is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Gonzaga University, where she has
taught since 1993. Before coming to Gonzaga she taught at Luther
College (Decorah, IA), Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), and Emory
University (Atlanta, GA). She has co-authored three books, Enticed by Eden (Baylor University Press 2013), Eve & Adam:Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender (Indiana University Press, 1999) and Those Elusive Deuteronomists: The Phenomenon of Pan-Dueteronomism (JSOT, 268; 1999), authored several articles, and has been a contributing writer for the Anchor Bible Dictionary, Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, The New Interpreters Bible Dictionary, and to Women
in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew
Bible, The apocryphal/Deuterocanoncial Books and the New Testament.
In addition to these publication activities, she has served as a
consultant for various presses as well as a speaker in both local and
national venues. Her research interests are Hebrew Scriptures,
Biblical Interpretation, the Bible and Popular Cultures, and Gender Studies.

Dr. John Sheveland teaches courses on religion and violence, interreligious dialogue, Christian theology, and the religions of India. He received his M.A.R. in Christian theology from Yale Divinity School in 1999 and Ph.D. in systematic and comparative theology from Boston College in 2006. His research interests include theological anthropology, comparative theology dealing with Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and comparative theological responses to religious violence. On campus he organizes the annual lecture series entitled Being Religious Interreligiously; details including a YouTube playlist can be found on the department website. He has contributed articles to a variety of journals and books, and is author of the book Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika (Ashgate, 2011). John is a member of the American Academy of Religion, Catholic Theological Society of America, and College Theology Society.

Dr. Cate Siejk

Professor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6776
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 112

Office HoursFALL 2015

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siejk@gonzaga.eduswlcp@aol.com

Dr. Cate Siejk, Professor of Religious Studies, received her Ph.D. in Theology and Education from Boston College in 1992. She began teaching at Gonzaga in fall, 1991 and regularly teaches courses in Feminist Christian Doctrine, Feminist Theologies, and Spirituality and the Adult Life Cycle. Dr. Siejk's research interests are in epistemology, feminist theory, and feminist theologies. She is also a faculty member in the Women's and Gender Studies Program.

Dr. Scott Starbuck, Lecturer of Religious Studies, earned his Ph.D. in Old Testament/Ancient Near Eastern Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1996. Scott began teaching at Gonzaga in 2002. He is the author of Court Oracles in the Psalms: The So-Called Royal Psalms in their Ancient Near Eastern Context and co-contributor to the Graphic Concordance to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Specializing in biblical theology and hermeneutics, he regularly publishes articles and delivers scholarly papers. Most recently, Scott was a contributing writer to the Encyclopedia of the Bibleand Its Reception and The Timeless Psalms Project. Currently, he is writing a biblical theology monograph on Jesus’ self-understanding as messiah. His wider research interests include Hebrew syntax in the Book of Judges, Psalms and worship, the development of Israelite religion, biblical theology, cross-religious dialogue, and the psychology of religion. Scott was ordained in 1990 by the Presbyterian Church (USA) and continues to serve as the Teaching Elder of Manito Presbyterian Church.

Bud Thompson

Sr. Lecturer of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6713
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 002

Office Hours

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thompsonv@gonzaga.edu

Prof. Thompson teaches New Testament. He received his degree (ThM) from Princeton Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey in 1977. He has taught at Gonzaga since 1988. Prior to that he served as a parish pastor to congregations of the Lutheran Church for 33 years. He also serves as managing Editor for the scholarly journal, Lutheran Quarterly, a position he has held since 1987. Among his publications are "Preaching the Justification of Zacchaeus" (Lutheran Quarterly 23:4); "The Bible in theological Formation" (The Pastor Theologian); "Something You Should Know" (By What Authority); "The Spirit and Contemporary Spirituality" (Loving God With Our Minds); "Things Above Us Do Not concern Us" (Hope for the Future). He has edited a number of volumes, among them Luther's Understanding of Justification by J. Iwand. He also writes a contemporary column on the basics of Christian faith for the by-monthly magazine, Connections.

Dr. Anastasia Wendlinder

Associate Professor of Religious Studies/Graduate Program Co-Director

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.AD Box 057Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6786
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office LocationRobinson House 006

Office HoursFALL 2015

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wendlinder@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Anastasia Wendlinder is Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Gonzaga University. She also serves as Co-Director of the Graduate Program. Dr. Wendlinder received her Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the University of Notre Dame in 2004, where she wrote her dissertation on Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart and served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Theology Department. Anastasia received her M.A. in Systematic and Philosophical Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California in 1993 and her B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1987 with a double major in Psychology and Sociology. Besides her concentration in systematic theology, Anastasia’s areas of expertise include sacramental and liturgical theology, the Second Vatican Council, inter-Christian relations and issues of social justice. Anastasia is a member of the College Theology Society, the Catholic Theological Society of America and the American Academy of Religion.